asymmetry in glyphs: Ā Ă ĉ Ī ī Ĵ Â 18px

I'm not convinced that it is a dup of bug #619951. The misalignment is clearly there, but the question is what is causing it... the font renders fine when unhinted, but as the hints come in some dimensions are changing whilst others aren't.

In the layout, the 'A' character and accent are minutely off centre, but only ever so fractionally, I can't understand how this would get multiplied up.

Either way, the interaction between the metadata and the Freetype hinting styles *is* there, and if it doesn't happen in other fonts, then it would point to a bug in the Ubuntu Font Family hinting code. As a simple test, please confirm (ideally with a screenshot) that the same is not happening with eg. Deja Vu Sans at the same range of sizes and hint settings.

hintstyle = full
app: Charachter Map

Iz bug :-)

ubuntu-private-fonts (0.1.10~ppa1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Regular:
      + Misplaced accent above lowercase y corrected. (LP: #619951)
      + Hyphen made 1 pixel heavier in sizes 32-36ppm.
      + Respaced hypen in 8-16 ppm. (LP: #608758)
      + Respace s in 12-18ppm to look less like a 5.
      + Period made 1 pixel lighter az 27 ppm.
      + Lowercase w made wider at 22ppm.
      + Small size (8-9ppm) greyscale improved. (LP: #621456)
      + Accent positions improved where possible. (LP: #622385)
    - Regular & Italic:
      + x height increased 1 pixel at 20,22,24 ppm.
    - Bold Italic:
      + Some Greek Poly glyphs adjusted spacing.
    - All weights:
      + U+0162, U+0163 now have cedilla accents. (LP: #615565)

 -- Daniel Holbach <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:26:32 +0200